Top Containers repositories

Repositories with the GitHub topic “containers”: 71 repositories with 1.3M stars between them, mostly written in Go, Rust and Shell. The highest-rated is kubernetes/kubernetes, #244 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder.

Biggest movers this week

libracoder/kiri

Open on GitHubRust
  • Copper IV
  • Trending #2 · 2-day streak
  • New & Rising · Nov 2026

A small, fast container runtime for macOS, Windows and Linux with free Ngrok alternative

  • 989+54 Elo, change today
  • +2.5k stars gained
  • 6.1k stars
  • 277 forks
  • 17 watchers
cargo
cargo install --git https://github.com/libracoder/kiri
  • containers
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • linux

getarcaneapp/arcane

Open on GitHubGo

Modern Docker Management, Designed for Everyone

  • 1,652+20 Elo, change today
  • 8.4k stars
  • 353 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane.git
  • compose
  • container-management
  • containers
  • docker

kata-containers/kata-containers

Open on GitHubRust

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

  • 1,659+11 Elo, change today
  • 9.1k stars
  • 1.5k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers.git
  • containers
  • cri
  • cri-o
  • docker

lxc/incus

Open on GitHubGo

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

  • 1,535+5 Elo, change today
  • 6.6k stars
  • 522 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/lxc/incus.git
  • cloud
  • containers
  • hacktoberfest
  • virtual-machines

anchore/grype

Open on GitHubGo

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

  • 1,673−3 Elo, change today
  • 13.2k stars
  • 946 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/anchore/grype.git
  • container-image
  • containers
  • cyclonedx
  • docker

smol-machines/smolvm

Open on GitHubRust

An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.

  • 1,604+2 Elo, change today
  • 7.1k stars
  • 368 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm.git
  • agent-sandbox
  • ai-agents
  • code-execution
  • containers

libracoder/kiri

Open on GitHubRust
  • Copper IV
  • Trending #2 · 2-day streak
  • New & Rising · Nov 2026

A small, fast container runtime for macOS, Windows and Linux with free Ngrok alternative

  • 989+54 Elo, change today
  • +2.5k stars gained
  • 6.1k stars
  • 277 forks
  • 17 watchers
cargo
cargo install --git https://github.com/libracoder/kiri
  • containers
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • linux

Top 71 on the Elo ladder

  1. #244
    kubernetes/kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    2,099 Elo −85129kGo
  2. #253
    bregman-arie/devops-exercises

    Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL…

    2,094 Elo −7686.8kPython
  3. #518
    aquasecurity/trivy

    Finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets and SBOM issues in containers, Kubernetes and code.

    1,968 Elo +3739.3kGo
  4. #717
    firecracker-microvm/firecracker

    Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

    1,912 Elo −438kRust
  5. #891
    MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps

    This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for…

    1,877 Elo −15630.9kShell
  6. #992
    moby/moby

    The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

    1,858 Elo −12772.2kGo
  7. #1,058
    podman-container-tools/podman

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    1,846 Elo +1733.2kGo
  8. #1,232
    google/gvisor

    Application Kernel for Containers

    1,823 Elo +1020kGo
  9. #1,246
    cilium/cilium

    eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

    1,821 Elo −2225.8kGo
  10. #1,305
    abiosoft/colima

    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

    1,811 Elo +2531.7kGo
  11. #1,390
    goharbor/harbor

    An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

    1,799 Elo −4129.7kGo
  12. #1,884
    kubernetes/minikube

    Run Kubernetes locally

    1,740 Elo −4332.2kGo
  13. #2,069
    containerd/containerd

    An open and reliable container runtime

    1,720 Elo −1521.4kGo
  14. #2,092
    pranshuparmar/witr

    Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.

    1,717 Elo −1723kGo
  15. #2,293
    pulumi/pulumi

    Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

    1,696 Elo +725.9kGo
  16. #2,368
    rancher/rancher

    Complete container management platform

    1,689 Elo −5326kGo
  17. #2,532
    anchore/grype

    A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

    1,673 Elo +5113.2kGo
  18. #2,644
    dapr/dapr

    Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven…

    1,664 Elo +426.1kGo
  19. #2,709
    kata-containers/kata-containers

    Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight…

    1,659 Elo +669.1kRust
  20. #2,802
    getarcaneapp/arcane

    Modern Docker Management, Designed for Everyone

    1,652 Elo +1258.4kGo
  21. #3,067
    anchore/syft

    CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems

    1,632 Elo +459.8kGo
  22. #3,157
    dagger/dagger

    Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud

    1,626 Elo −1516.6kGo
  23. #3,282
    opencontainers/runc

    CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

    1,618 Elo +413.5kGo
  24. #3,365
    moby/buildkit

    concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit

    1,613 Elo +3010.4kGo
  25. #3,422
    dokku/dokku

    A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

    1,610 Elo −3032.2kShell
  26. #3,514
    smol-machines/smolvm

    An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.

    1,604 Elo +487.1kRust
  27. #3,861
    kubernetes/kops

    Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

    1,581 Elo −2816.7kGo
  28. #3,916
    slimtoolkit/slim

    Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages…

    1,578 Elo +4123.5kGo
  29. #4,326
    jart/cosmopolitan

    build-once run-anywhere c library

    1,555 Elo −1521.4kC
  30. #4,371
    lensapp/lens

    Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

    1,552 Elo −2823.2k
  31. #4,499
    distribution/distribution

    The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content

    1,545 Elo −2110.6kGo
  32. #4,532
    crossplane/crossplane

    The Cloud Native Control Plane

    1,543 Elo +1612.2kGo
  33. #4,634
    redpanda-data/redpanda

    Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

    1,538 Elo −2512.6kC++
  34. #4,683
    lxc/incus

    Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

    1,535 Elo +526.6kGo
  35. #4,763
    falcosecurity/falco

    Cloud Native Runtime Security

    1,531 Elo +219.5kC++
  36. #4,836
    GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

    Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

    1,527 Elo −615.9kGo
  37. #4,940
    nicolaka/netshoot

    a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container

    1,522 Elo +1411kShell
  38. #5,224
    caprover/caprover

    Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids

    1,509 Elo −2715.2kTypeScript
  39. #5,292
    podman-desktop/podman-desktop

    Podman Desktop is the best free and open source tool to work with Containers and Kubernetes for developers. Get an…

    1,506 Elo +368.1kTypeScript
  40. #5,307
    jessfraz/dockerfiles

    Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.

    1,505 Elo −2713.9kDockerfile
  41. #5,422
    89luca89/distrobox

    Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and…

    1,500 Elo +3813.1kGo
  42. #5,518
    bcicen/ctop

    Top-like interface for container metrics

    1,496 Elo −1917.8kGo
  43. #5,568
    GoogleContainerTools/jib

    🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.

    1,493 Elo −2614.4kJava
  44. #5,655
    GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

    Build Container Images In Kubernetes

    1,489 Elo −3215.7kGo
  45. #5,765
    bregman-arie/devops-resources

    DevOps resources - Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform…

    1,484 Elo −69.7kGroovy
  46. #5,808
    openshift/origin

    Conformance test suite for OpenShift

    1,482 Elo −138.6kGo
  47. #5,828
    jetify-com/devbox

    Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

    1,481 Elo +1812.4kGo
  48. #6,191
    podman-container-tools/buildah

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    1,465 Elo +309.1kGo
  49. #6,444
    quay/clair

    Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

    1,455 Elo −511kGo
  50. #6,505
    Tikam02/DevOps-Guide

    DevOps Guide - Development to Production all configurations with basic notes to debug efficiently.

    1,452 Elo −159.3kHTML
  51. #6,713
    docker-archive-public/docker.kitematic

    Visual Docker Container Management on Mac & Windows

    1,444 Elo −1812.1kJavaScript
  52. #6,774
    docker-archive-public/docker.labs

    This is a collection of tutorials for learning how to use Docker with various tools. Contributions welcome.

    1,442 Elo −611.8kPHP
  53. #6,876
    youki-dev/youki

    A container runtime written in Rust

    1,438 Elo +487.6kRust
  54. #6,962
    1,435 Elo +48.2kC#
  55. #7,004
    kubernetes/kompose

    Convert Compose to Kubernetes

    1,433 Elo 10.6kGo
  56. #7,075
    sottlmarek/DevSecOps

    Ultimate DevSecOps library

    1,431 Elo +176.9k
  57. #7,272
    sameersbn/docker-gitlab

    Dockerized GitLab

    1,423 Elo −78.1kShell
  58. #7,506
    bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

    An operating system designed for hosting containers

    1,414 Elo +119.7kRust
  59. #7,658
    linuxkit/linuxkit

    A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers

    1,408 Elo +108.6kGo
  60. #7,738
    replicate/cog

    Containers for machine learning

    1,405 Elo −89.4kGo
  61. #7,844
    fission/fission

    Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

    1,401 Elo −208.9kGo
  62. #8,358
    concourse/concourse

    Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD.

    1,381 Elo −257.9kGo
  63. #8,366
    wasm3/wasm3

    🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime

    1,381 Elo +198kC
  64. #8,616
    rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop

    Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop

    1,370 Elo +157.4kTypeScript
  65. #8,658
    ko-build/ko

    Build and deploy Go applications

    1,368 Elo +218.5kGo
  66. #8,741
    rkt/rkt

    [Project ended] rkt is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.

    1,364 Elo −128.7kGo
  67. #8,768
    eclipse-che/che

    Kubernetes based Cloud Development Environments for Enterprise Teams

    1,363 Elo −227.1kTypeScript
  68. #9,112
    johnthagen/min-sized-rust

    🦀 How to minimize Rust binary size 📦 https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

    1,344 Elo +19.8kRust
  69. #9,742
    mviereck/x11docker

    Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.

    1,289 Elo 6.3kShell
  70. #9,806
    pachyderm/pachyderm

    Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning

    1,274 Elo −106.3kGo
  71. #10,011
    libracoder/kiri

    A small, fast container runtime for macOS, Windows and Linux with free Ngrok alternative

    989 Elo +3116.1kRust